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Be There or Be Square

"This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.

It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known so far to be more than one trillion digits long. They are the acolytes of the church of pi.

And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.

That day falls on Wednesday this year: March 14. Or 3.14. Obviously."  More...

Mathematical Fiction

Jon Rice, one of our MathGeek field correspondents, has submitted a link to a website dedicated to mathematical fiction.  Click here to visit the site, and click here to see Jon's recommended title, Mimsy Were the Borogoves.  Thanks, Jon!

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